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Character Analysis Of Farewell To Manzanar

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The main characters in Farewell to Manzanar are Jeanne Wakatsuki, Papa (George Ko Wakatsuki), and Mama (Rigu Sukai Wakatsuki),Woodrow “Woody” Wakatsuki. Jeanne has more siblings but her, Papa, Mama, and Woody are the most important characters. The characters traits are all different and effects everyone in a different way. Jeanne is the youngest of the Wakatsuki children and Papa’s favorite. She observes and comments on her own and her family’s experiences before, during, and after the wartime internment. In the beginning of the narrative she is a naïve seven-year-old, but as she grows older, she loses her naïveté and comes to understand the true nature of the camps, her family, and herself. Jeanne’s father and the patriarch of the American

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